Listen to my 2019 conversation with poet, translator and visual artist and poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y., Bertha Rogers on her exquisite newest works, Uncommon Creatures: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems From the Exeter Book, which she illuminated and translated, and her collection of poetry, Wild, Again (salmonpoetry, 2019). Don’t miss Bertha reading in Anglo-Saxon!

            Uncommon Creatures is a tour de force, riveting translation by Bertha Rogers

            of all 95 Anglo-Saxon Riddles, rendered in alliterative verse that feasts on

            sound… Beautifully illuminated by Rogers, these riddles will enchant

            and delight the reader with their mystery and wonder.

                        -- Hélène Cardona, Poet and Translator, Author, Life in Suspension

            Wild, Again’s first poem opens with these words: ‘Once I was part of a holy

            beast…’ – and the thrilling audacity of that assertion, the claim of having

            both a divine and inhuman heritage, opens wide the parameters of what

            a poetic bestiary might be.  These aren’t personae poems, these are poems

            of embodiment. 

                        -- Lynn McGee, author of Bonanza, Heirloom Bulldog, Sober Cooking

Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us to discuss “duende” – the concept of passion and inspiration made famous by poet Frederico Garcia Lorca.

Yours in radio

Episode 3

Poet Bertha Rogers, Uncommon Creatures

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